San Jose Earthquakes (9-1-2, first in the Western Conference) vs. Seattle Sounders FC (6-1-3, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Seattle; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Seattle -103, San Jose +241, Draw +270; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Sounders and the San Jose Earthquakes square off in Western Conference play.<\/p>\n
The Sounders are 6-1-3 against conference opponents. The Sounders are 10th in the Western Conference drawing 54 corner kicks, averaging 5.4 per game.<\/p>\n
The Earthquakes are 7-1-1 against Western Conference opponents. The Earthquakes are 27-0-0 when they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Sounders won the last meeting 1-0.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Paul Rothrock has four goals and one assist for the Sounders. Cristian Roldan has scored three goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Preston Judd has eight goals and two assists for the Earthquakes. Ousseni Bouda has scored four goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Sounders: 20-1-9, averaging 4.2 goals, 15.3 shots on goal and 16.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: 23-2-5, averaging 6.6 goals, 17.4 shots on goal and 19.2 corner kicks per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Sounders: Ryan Sailor (injured), Nikola Petkovic (injured), Pedro De La Vega (injured), Yeimar Gomez Andrade (injured), Kim Kee-Hee (injured).<\/p>\n
Earthquakes: Niko Tsakiris (injured), DeJuan Jones (injured), Vitor Costa (injured), Earl Edwards Jr. (injured), Timo Werner (injured).<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes (9-1-2, first in the Western Conference) vs. Seattle Sounders FC (6-1-3, fourth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[129670,9497,125366,130662,18709,130665,96696,5341,101235,130664,16465,5337,5340,110430,130666,88,90,89,7853,79159,53488,9496,130663],"class_list":["post-311774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cristian-roldan","tag-dejuan-jones","tag-earl-edwards","tag-kim-kee-hee","tag-niko-tsakiris","tag-nikola-petkovic","tag-ousseni-bouda","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-paul-rothrock","tag-pedro-de-la-vega","tag-preston-judd","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-ryan-sailor","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-sounders","tag-timo-werner","tag-vitor-costa","tag-yeimar-gomez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}